This photo collection narrates a deep story of being or not being… reincarnation of life in another body. There are 3 parallel narrations in these photos: waiting list, organ donors and organ receivers. The story starts with a patient who is in the waiting list, and it continues with organ donors (brain dead people in Iran can donate their organs only after getting consent of their family to donate life to 8 people. These organs include: heart, 2 lungs, 2 kidneys, liver, pancreas, intestine). The story goes on and then there are organ receivers and it ends with a patient in waiting list.
22year old Mozhgan awaits to receive new lungs, waiting with hope…
The donor’s magnanimous hands are God’s merciful saving hands in patients’ lives
The investigation of the pupils’ reaction to light is one of the diagnostics that the expert doctors in confirming the brain death carry out
The expert doctor is investigating to confirm brain death, a task that is conducted with extreme sensitivity
The doctors are analyzing the status of the patient and the pleading gaze of the family’s son that says goodbye to the father
The nurse is preparing the patient for the checkups
2 years and 10 months old, Selda, holds invaluable gifts for the patients who are waiting for a donor
A mother who bestows the apple of her eyes and eyes that sing a lullaby by their subsiding tears.
Donor’s family in the special room talking to the psychologist of donation department to guide them through the process to sign their consent
A clergy from the 18year old Mohammad’s relatives who reads the Quran next to his bed saying his last goodbye to his beloved and having him blessed for his road to awe
Medics and nurses transporting the patient to the surgery room in Dr. Masih Daneshvari Hospital and the whole world witnesses this magnanimous donation
Prior to donation, the destination hospital of each organ is chosen so that the person who has been waiting is blessed with this gift.
the medical team of Dr. Masih Daneshvari Hospital are performing the harvest surgery
the doctor is moving the left kidney to the special transport bag. Pancreas has already been placed there.
Organ donors in Tehran are lavished with respect and honor resting in peace in a special area in Behesht Zahra Graveyard. Their magnanimity is what transforms them from a mortal to an immortal memory.
26 years old Abbas is from Kazaz Village in Arak Town. He lost his both kidneys in a short time and was placed in the waiting list for three months until he was gifted with a kidney on 13rd Farvardin. His donor was Asal Badi’I the prima dona of Iran’s cinema industry. Abbas who lives with his wife, mother and two daughters says: “ what I have in my body is not just an organ but a message not to give up on hope ever!”
Mohammad Reza now hosts two hearts in his chest. One is his old heart that had hardly been challenged and the other one is a heart that has been donated to him. Today, the effects of his malfunctioning heart have ameliorated by the help of the gift he has received. Although not all heart surgeries are performed under such principles, the fact that this surgery has been performed in Iran endorses the Iranian surgeons’ expertise
Mohammad Amin who is 24 years old and lives in Mashhad now is experiencing cheerful moments beside his family. A delight which is indebted to the donation of a liver that saved him from death.
63 year old Shokat from Tehran is a kind grandmother with 7 grandchildren. The reason she still can gather her grandchildren around her is the donation she received. She got both her kidneys from an 11 year old baby, Ava, who is the youngest donor of Shahid Beheshti Donation Family.
The live one receives proves one big fact and that is we can even gift people with a new life!
The patients in need of organ donation spend every second of their life struggling with hope and hopelessness. Yet, there is always a ray of hope somewhere as we choose to end their agony by forsaking what we cannot have anymore…
